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HARDtalk: Barbara Amiel: What do the super-rich owe the rest of the world?

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Barbara Amiel: What do the super-rich owe the rest of the world?

05/04/2021 GMT

BBC World Service - HARDtalk, Barbara Amiel: What do the super-rich owe the rest of the world?

What does a former newspaper columnist's memoir reveal about the lives of the wealthy?

Stephen Sackur speaks to a former newspaper columnist and editor whose recent memoir paints an extraordinary, even grotesque, picture of the lives of the wealthy.

The proportion of wealth owned by a super-rich elite continues to grow in societies around the world. The glaring disparity between the 'have-mosts' and the 'have-nothings' has fuelled a wave of political anger. Stephen Sackur speaks to the former newspaper columnist, editor, and one-time high society hostess Barbara Amiel, whose recent memoir, wittingly or not, paints an extraordinary, even grotesque, picture of the lives of the wealthy.

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